Airbrush paint recommendations?

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  • December 7, 2009 at 6:39 am #88583
    Holiday
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    Next month I'll be ordering some airbrush paints sets. They will cover both opaque and transparent acrylics. So far the one brand I'm keen on is Golden Artists' Paints. I don't plan on airbrushing t-shirts or sports-related items or cars. It will just be illustration board and watercolor paper. Does anybody have any other recommendations for airbrush paint?

    January 27, 2010 at 3:08 pm #89523
    Holiday
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    Hi guys. I finally ordered some airbrush paints. They should arrive in a month. When that happens I plan to explore different ideas, including some of my celebrity muscle ideas. I always felt too constrained using Photoshop, so I want to just illustrate them the traditional way.

    January 28, 2010 at 1:30 am #89541
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    Sounds cool, Holiday. Can you please tell me, would it be hard for you to apply your airbrushing skills to a muscular female figurine, as there is a company who will do 3D prints of Zbrush and Poser figures, but won’t do realistic skin painting.

    January 28, 2010 at 6:54 am #89547
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    the_real_me wrote:

    Sounds cool, Holiday. Can you please tell me, would it be hard for you to apply your airbrushing skills to a muscular female figurine, as there is a company who will do 3D prints of Zbrush and Poser figures, but won’t do realistic skin painting.

    Sorry, I don’t know anything about that. I’ll be learning thorough 3D skills when I go study in Australia later this year. But I think playing with the light sources on 3D objects can be tiresome if you want to a simpler approach. But Photoshop is a good tool to start with surface textures.

    January 28, 2010 at 3:33 pm #89556
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    Holiday wrote:

    the_real_me wrote:

    Sounds cool, Holiday. Can you please tell me, would it be hard for you to apply your airbrushing skills to a muscular female figurine, as there is a company who will do 3D prints of Zbrush and Poser figures, but won’t do realistic skin painting.

    Sorry, I don’t know anything about that. I’ll be learning thorough 3D skills when I go study in Australia later this year. But I think playing with the light sources on 3D objects can be tiresome if you want to a simpler approach. But Photoshop is a good tool to start with surface textures.

    I think you must have misunderstood me. What I mean is that the skin texture can’t be printed from 3D, but rather has to be airbrushed onto the actual statue after it has been printed. So it’s an exercise in physical painting with an airbrush, not in 3D texturing with software. However, you could use the 3D renders, with skin texture, as a reference for painting the skin onto the statue.

    February 10, 2010 at 9:03 am #89968
    Holiday
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    Since I don’t work with 3D CGI it’s not a reference for me. Photographs of real people are a better a reference. Painting figurines will be the same challenge as painting any model kit. I am interested in learning how to do more realistic skin textures on an illlustration but that could be said with any other tool, like a paintbrush.

    March 29, 2010 at 4:44 pm #91210
    Holiday
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    Thought you should know I’ve given up using my old external-mix airbrush. I’ve started using an internal-mix, double action model this week, and it’s been great. I’ll finally be done with this robot model kit this week. Then I can move on to my illustrations.

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